Conjecture on strictly bounded objects in symmetric tensor categories

Let C\mathcal{C} be a symmetric tensor category over a field k\mathbf{k} of characteristic p>0p>0. Let XCX\in\mathcal{C} be strictly NN-bounded, with N>3N>3.

Strict boundedness conjecture. The following assertions hold:

  1. Either Sym2X\operatorname{Sym}^2 X or 2X\wedge^2 X is invertible;
  2. N=pnN=p^n for some nZ>0n\in\mathbb{Z}_{>0};
  3. dimX=±2\operatorname{dim} X=\pm 2;
  4. XX is homotopically NN-bounded.

This conjecture describes the expected structure of strictly bounded objects in positive-characteristic symmetric tensor categories. The supplied passage says that it will be proved for quasi-finite symmetric tensor categories, so the general statement remains open in the context provided.

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Kevin Coulembier and Pavel Etingof, “N-spherical functors and tensor categories”, arXiv:2312.03972 (2023).

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